Friend, the church finds its life as it listens to the Word of God. It finds its purpose as it lives out and displays the Word of God. The church’s job is to listen and then to echo.

Pride causes us to care more about what our non-Christian friends think of us than what God will do to them in their sin.

A gospel that in no way offends the sinner has not been understood.

God’s Word has always been His chosen instrument to create, convict, convert, and conform His people.

Avoiding the doctrine of Hell is one step away from denying it altogether.

The gospel of Christ has never needed the gimmicks of man to effect conversion in the soul

Your plans are fine, as long as you realize God has the right to change them.

We do not fail in our evangelism if we faithfully tell the gospel to someone who is not subsequently converted; we fail only if we do not faithfully tell the gospel at all.

Christian proclamation might make the gospel audible, but Christians living together in local congregations make the gospel visible (see John 13:34-35). The church is the gospel made visible.

Correct division should be preferred over corrupt unity.

Our examples of enduring hardship are often more powerful than our stories of success and triumph.

Bring on the controversy. I write real life. It's harsh and sometimes gritty, but it's real. Why should we tip toe around that?

All children think unkindly of their parents at some time or another

I'm a control freak. If you're going to slap my name on something, I would like to control it.

She'd been acutely aware that terror, betrayal, and cruelty had a human face, but she had not sufficiently appreciated that courage, kindness, and love had a human face as well.

It is a good maxim to trust a person entirely or not at all.

I will if you go out with me, Evans

The most wonderful person I met was John Travolta. He's one of the ultimate movie stars of all time.

I do not think discursively. It is not so much that I arrive at truth as that I take my start from it.

We must perfect a worldwide system of accountability for nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

Cram as much pleasure as you can into life, and rail against the pain that you have to suffer as a result.